08.31.07
ID in Texas
State Board will not back the teaching of intelligent design
Texans who believe that public school classrooms should teach science and not religion should be bolstered by the majority of the State Board of Education who, according to a survey taken by the Dallas Morning News, says they won’t back teaching of intelligent design to Texas schoolchildren.
But don’t think that the subject will just go away. Intelligent design is the argument that man and nature weren’t happenstance occurrences, but were guided by an omnipotent hand. If that sounds like a dressed-up version of the creation of the world as told in Genesis, that’s because it is.Intelligent design is but another assault on the evolutionary theory as accepted by scientists and taught in universities and public schools and which is the bedrock for biology, zoology and the other natural sciences.
Which means that the State Board of Education, whose word on textbooks has an outsized influence on all classroom textbook buying in the nation, can expect to hear more appeals from advocacy groups to either include intelligent design in the state’s curriculum, or for inclusion of criticism of the evolutionary theory.